 | John Cann Bailey - Elegiac poetry - 1900 - 330 pages
...lonely tower, Thy thrilling trump had roused the land, When fraud or danger were at hand; By thee, as by the beacon-light, Our pilots had kept course aright...some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propped the tottering throne : Now is the stately column broke, The beacon-light is quenched in smoke,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...lonely tower, Thy thrilling trump had roused the land, When fraud or danger were at hand; By thee, as by the beacon-light, Our pilots had kept course aright...beacon-light is quench'd in smoke, The trumpet's silver voice is still, The warder silent on the hill ! O think, how to his latest day, When Death, just hovering,... | |
 | Arthur Stanley - English poetry - 1901 - 408 pages
...lonely tower, Thy thrilling trump had roused the land, When fraud or danger were at hand ; By thee, as by the beacon-light, Our pilots had kept course aright;...some proud column, though alone, Thy strength had propped the tottering throne : Now is the stately column broke, The beacon-light is quenched in smoke,... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 694 pages
...a few words of sorrow and with the quotation of Scott's moving- lines to the memory of Pitt : — 1 Now is the stately column broke, The beacon-light...silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill I ' These beautiful words were addressed, said Mr. Gladstone, 'to a man great indeed, but not greater... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 694 pages
...with a few words of sorrow and with the quotation of Scott's moving lines to the memory of Pitt: — ' Now is the stately column broke, The beacon-light...silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill I' These beautiful words were addressed, said Mr. Gladstone, ' to a man great indeed, but not greater... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 698 pages
...with a few words of sorrow and with the quotation of Scott's moving lines to the memory of Pitt : ' Now is the stately column broke, The beacon-light...silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill ! ' These beautiful words were addressed, said Mr. Gladstone, ' to a man great indeed, but not greater... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 696 pages
...a few words of sorrow and with the quotation of Scott's moving lines to the memory of Pitt : — ' Now is the stately column broke, The beacon-light...silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill 1 ' These beautiful words were addressed, said Mr. Gladstone, 'to a man great indeed, but not greater... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott, edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. - 1904 - 986 pages
...rous'd the land, When fraud or danger were at hand ; By thee, as by the beacon-light, Our pilots liad kept course aright ; As some proud column, though...silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill ! Oh think, how to his latest day, When Death, just hovering, claim'd his prey, With Palinure's unaltcr'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1906 - 616 pages
...lonely tower, Thy thrilling trump had roused the land, When fraud or danger were at hand ; Ky thee, as by the beacon-light, Our pilots had kept course aright...though alone, Thy strength had propp'd the tottering of power, throne: Now it the stately column broke, The beacon-light is quench'd in smoke, The trumpet's... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1907 - 428 pages
...stripp'd of power, A watchman on the lonely tower, Thy thrilling trump had roused the land, By theo, as by the beacon-light, Our pilots had kept course aright;...silver sound is still, The warder silent on the hill! 8 The dirge grows triumphal as it unites him and his rival in a common bond of renown and patriotism... | |
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Had'st thou but lived, though stripp'd of power, A watchman on the lonely tower, Thy thrilling trump had roused the land, When fraud or danger were at hand ; By thee, as by the beacon-light, Our pilots had kept course aright ; As some proud column, though... 
